Joyce Wieland

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joyce Wieland (1930 – 1988). A painter, mixed media artist and filmmaker, Wieland began her career in Toronto in the 1950s before relocating to New York City in 1962. This spurred her to begin working with new materials (in...

Ross Beard

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ross Beard (1953 – 2019). Beard began landscape painting at the age of twelve and later developed his unique style while completing his post-secondary education at Sheridan and Niagara College. He began painting full time in...

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. He is one of the most outspoken and important – both in terms of his artwork and activism – contemporary Indigenous artists in Canada. Yuxweluptun is of Cowichan / Syilx First Nations heritage....

Daniel Solomon

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Daniel Solomon. Solomon is (primarily) an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush, from the Painters Eleven. David Bolduc (a...

Marcel Barbeau

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Marcel Barbeau (1925  –  2016). Barbeau was a member of the Order of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and l’Ordre national du Québec. Primarily renowned for his painting, Barbeau also worked in sculpture, graphic...